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Title: A golden age of authors : a publisher's recollection
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ellsworth, William Webster, 1855-1936
Subjects: Authors and publishers Publishers and publishing
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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te design, were Chiches-ters. The perfect type arrangement of the page ofThe Century Dictionary was helped by him. On the top floor of the old oflSce were the artroom, and the packing-room. Up the three flights ofstairs went the best artists and the best wood-en-gravers of the day to lay their work before Alexan-der W. Drake, who from the beginning until justbefore his death was head of the Art Department.Although it was his part to criticize, and to declineif he did not like what was offered, yet he had thefriendship of every artist with whom he had to do.His criticisms always were so fair, his suggestionsso helpful, his praise so quickly given when praisewas due, that artists were prone to agree withhim even when they had to bear their canvasesaway. No man connected with the art world of NewYork was ever more lovingly honored than wasDrake by the dinner which ten of the best and mostinteresting clubs gave him on his retirement fromwork. The menu was a pamphlet bearing full-page (68)
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ALEXANDER W. DRAKE At a Twelfth-Night revel of the Century Club, in the guise of an itinerant Italian fortune-teller ALEXANDER W. DRAKE reproductions of pictures drawn in Drakes honorby John W. Alexander, Reginald Birch, Edwin H.Blashfield, Alfred Brennan, F. S. Church, TimothyCole, Kenyon Cox, F. V. DuMond, Charles DanaGibson, Jules Guerin, Jay Hambidge, Oliver Her-ford, A. I. Keller, E. W. Kemble, Will H. Low, Max-field Parrish, W. A. Rogers, F. Hopkinson Smith,Albert Sterner, and Irving R. Wiles; delightfulpictures they were, —including Gibsons Hats offto Drake! — Herfords My First Visit to Drake,the art-editor looking through a magnifying glassat the artists offering on his desk, and the artistsaying, What! only fifty dollars for a two-hornedrhinoceros! says I. That is my regular price for aone-horned rhinoceros! Everybody in the artworld was present at the dinner, for everybody lovedDrake. His taste was phenomenal. His collections ofbrass, of rings, of bird-cages, of glass bo

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